The National Institute of
Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has defined category A, B &
C priority pathogens (http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/Biodefense/bandc_priority.htm),
which have subsequently become important in biodefense research
funding, attracting broad interest from the research community. Since
the organisms listed in these categories may not be familiar to
researchers who have recently joined the emerging field, the DAVID
NIAID Pathogen Browser is provided as a quick starting point for them
to search the most relevant genes in the organisms by biological
keywords of interests. A large list of genes retrieved from the search
could be further transferred to the DAVID Bioinformatics Resources for
in-depth functional analysis with other DAVID functional annotation
tools. Thus, the tool may help researchers gain understanding of the
genes related to a priority pathogen of interest.